5 Broken Cameras

Mon Feb 04, 2013

21:00

Location

Cine Studio
(University of Nicosia)
46 Makedonitissas Avenue
Nicosia, Nicosia

Friends of Cinema Society
Phone: 96420491

Description

Palestinian farm laborer Emad has five video cameras, and each of them tells a different part of the story of his village's resistance to Israeli oppression. Emad lives in Bil'in, just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. Sympathizers from all over the world, including from Israel, provide help as resistance develops, but when the situation intensifies, people are arrested and villagers are killed. Emad keeps on filming despite pleas from his wife, who fears reprisals. This is an engrossing, out-of-the-ordinary film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, whose violence is written on the cameraman’s own body. The film has claimed some of the most prestigious awards internationally.

Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
Writer: Guy Davidi
Runtime: 90 min
Genre: Documentary
Language: Hebrew, Arabic
Subtitles: English, Greek
Production Year: 2011

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